The only way the US could have stopped it would have been not to coup Yanukovich in the first place or engage in an all-out war with Russia that would kickstart WW3 and, most likely, nuclear war.

As Marxist-Leninists have been saying from the first month of the engagement, the point has never been for Ukraine to win with full support from the west, but to use an expendable proxy to attempt weakening a perceived threat with as little commitment as humanly possible, I can’t believe y’all keep falling for the same transparent playbook.

Friendly reminder that there’s a provision in the UN charter for members of the security council to engage in acts of war without approval from other members against WW2 axis powers if they reinstate policies of aggression.

Afghanistan had a heavily armed population in a mountainous and very cavernous terrain where air support was a liability and heavy infantry/armored divisions were absolutely useless, not to mention a very motivated guerrilla popping up from every corner.

Ukraine is running out of their sponsor’s money and gear, and they have to kidnap young people off the streets to get enough cannon fodder. That’s not even close to a comparable situation. Try living in the real world for maybe an hour and you’ll stop being blindsided by your copium dreams.

The fell for it again award for US vassals

If anything, I’d want them to keep Texas and give back the rest

Not really, no. Everyone I know who’s anti US intervention here acknowledges that this government has fallen rather short in basically every regard concerning their opportunist left wing rhetoric. That doesn’t absolve the CIA and the US altogether from their responsibility in the perpetuation of such systems, they’re principally at fault for the problem and principally to blame for these astroturfed protests.

This has been their playbook for decades, they’ve done it rather recently in dozens of countries and they’re not even trying to be subtle about it. Can’t say I blame them, given that there’s clearly people stupid enough to go along with it.

Mexico does have a higher proportion of conservatives in Gen Z than any other demographic, but they’re still not a majority.

The reason that is, is because of our proximity to the US and its huge propaganda machine as well as concerted efforts by our media to paint conservatism as the real principled rebellion yadda yadda.

This has also been largely successful due to morena’s milquetoast succdem fence-sitting bullshit giving plenty of ammunition to the propagandists regarding issues which are important to young people, such as housing, reasonable working hours, quality public services (especially transportation) and a livable wage, most of which have been addressed with the standard “we can’t fix it unless we make sure the private sector can gouge us for it”. The issues of organized crime and their stranglehold on local economic activity (with near total impunity) have been better addressed than they were during Calderon’s term, but they’re still full of half measures at the best of times and young people are legitimately tired of the glacial pace of this administration.

There comes a point where cautious incrementalism reveals itself as stalling, darnos atole con el dedo, so to speak. That’s the reason the left wing protests a week prior were more succesful but they were just as much a protest against the US as they were about discontent with the Mexican government.

Well, they killed the people responsible for the leaks so that kind of dampened their reach

Typical statesian projection. There’s plenty of decent and even admirable politicians, you just obviously won’t find them in the empire’s employ.

But they’re making a list. They’re gonna take fifteen years of investigation and then seriously reprimand whomever is alive and maybe even curse at them.

When measured against their contemporaries? JFK, FDR, Eisenhower, Carter. Hell, Biden was a contemporary of Carter and was very much to the right of him.

Which is still a meaningless distinction because the least antisemitic Nazi is still a fucking nazi.

Probably both

If things ever get better for anyone it’s gonna be in spite of you

I hope they get retired in the Good Place sense. Only fitting for a

No, defending their sovereignty is what the people of the Donbas did after the US couped Yanukovich.

KKKonde Nast back at it again

If they did, you would have linked to that and it would have been plastered all over the internet. What do you think?

Genocide lmao. Y’all need to shut the fuck up with that.

Despite Ukraine’s best efforts, civilian casualties in this war have been remarkably low compared to other conflicts and ESPECIALLY compared to any conflict the US has been involved in so do shut up and unclutch those pearls if you’d be so kind.

?? Yes, the US also repurposed Nazis after they got their ass kicked despite Finland’s effort. The point?

Sure, you can find Ukrainian media saying almost all children have been abducted, abused and genocided by Russia but they’ve been saying they’re gonna collapse at the hand of a single pilot from week one so I’m gonna need actual evidence.

After years of accusations, Ukraine has produced a list of some 500 children, most of whom were with family in other parts of Europe.